Display-holder



L-. H. DALTON.

DISPLAY HOLDER;

APPLICATION FILED OCT 15.1919.

Patented June 7, 1921.

LLOYD HENRY DALTON, 0F GOFFEYVILLE, KANSAS.

DISPLAY-HOLDER.

Application filed October 15, 1919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LLOYD H. DALTON, citizenof the United States, residing at Coffe ville, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Display-Holders, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improved display holder particularlyadapted for use in displaying neck ties, socks, and the like, and has asone of its principal objects to provide a device of this characteradapted to hold and retain in a neat pile, a number of the articles tobe displayed.

The invention has as a further object to provide a device of thischaracter adapted to grip the pile of articles held thereby forpreventing accidental disarrangement of the articles but wherein thegripping action of the holder upon the pile of articles will not be suchas to muss or wrinkle the several articles of the pile.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a displayholder which will be characterized by extreme simplicity and which maybe produced at moderate cost.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter. In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing in dotted lines, a pile of neckties in place within my improved holder,

Fig. 2-is a plan view of the device, this view showing in dotted lines,the manner in which the jaws of the holder are adapted to be spread,

Fig. 8 is an end elevation of. the device, anc

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the device in detail.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, it will be seen thatthe body of my improved holder is formed preferably from a single lengthof suitable resilient wire bent at a point substantially midway betweenits ends to form a loop 10 having slightly diverging side portions 11.At the free ends of these side portions the strands of the wire arebowed upwardly to form upstanding retaining posts 12 normally lyingsubstantially parallel to each other and from said posts the strands ofthe wire are then continued to provide crossed spring arms 18. As willbe observed upon reference to Fig. 1, the lowermost of these arms liesin a plane with the loop 10 so that the Specification of Letters Patent.

lateral movement within the holder.

Patented June *7, 1921.

Serial No. 330,749.

device will rest fiat upon a shelf or display case. At the outer ends ofthe arms 13 the strands of the wire are bent upwardly at substantiallyright angles to form upstanding jaws 14 disposed in substantiallyparallel relation and, as shown in Fig. 3, normally lying within thelines of the posts 12. At the upper ends of said jaws the end portionsof the strands are bent inwardly to provide terminal loops 15 havingtheir free end portions sloping inwardly toward the inner sides of thejaws and providing downwardly diverging inclined shoulders 16 lyingbetween the jaws. Thus, it will be seen that the device is ofparticularly simple construction and may be readily formed. The deviceis, as previously intimated, primarily intended for use as a displayholder for neck ties, socks, or the like, although, of course, theholder may be employed for displaying other objects. However, in thedrawings 1 have, in dotted lines, shown the manner in which the holderis adapted to retain a pile of neck ties. The

neck ties are first preferably folded, as suggested, and are then placedone upon the other when the pile of neck ties may be grasped by one handat the folded ends thereof and placed within the holder. To accomplishthis it is simply necessary to grasp the posts 12 between the fingers ofthe other hand and press inwardly thereon for spreading the jaws 14:when the pile of neck ties may be disposed within the holderextendingbetween the posts and between the jaws. Consequently, upon therelease of the posts, the arms 13 will move to slightly clamp the pileof neck ties between the jaws, it being observed in this connection thatthe shoulders 16 at the upper ends of the jaws will coincidently rideagainst the pile of neck ties for slightly compressing the neck ties ofthe pile at the adjacent end portions of the ties. Thus, as will beappreciated, the pile of neck ties will be yieldably grippedsufficiently to prevent accidental displacement of the neck ties fromthe holder or disarrangement of the neck ties in the pile, the posts 12serving to hold the wider end portions of the neck ties against The pileof neck ties will consequently always present a neat appearance while,at the same time, the aws 14: and shoulders 16 will not bear against orgrip the ties in such degree as to cause mussing or wrinkling thereof.

As will, of course, be understood, the pile of ties may be readilydisplaced from the holder by simplycompressing the posts 12 or any oneofvthe ties may be removed without compressing the posts by simplypulling upon the loose ends of the tie.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A display holder for neckties or other articles of merchandise piled oneupon another consisting of a single strand of wire formed into a springcoil at its center, arms diverging from said coil, upstanding posts atthe ends of said arms, crossed arms extending from said posts, jawsrising from the free ends of said crossed arms, and lateral shoulders onthe inn-er sides of said jaws at the upper terminals of the same thecoil, the diverging arms and the crossed arms forming a base upon whichthe pile of articles may rest, the posts and jaws restraining thearticles in the pile from displacement, and the shoulders on the jawsbearing upon the pile to yieldaloly hold the articles against withdrawaltherefron'l.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

LLOYD naNRY DALTON. [Ls]

